MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin

> I keep tight control of my quasi-addictive personality these days, ever since my days
> of Internet bingeing. So I budgeted $40 for food and $10 for gambling, and only ended
> up spending $1 on video slots. Yay, me. Maybe if I'd won something I would have spent
> more.

Holy cow, what kind of slots were you playing? I'm hardly a big gambler, but I'd be lucky if $10 lasted me 15 minutes. A dollar would be gone in seconds.

I've been to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun in CT a few times and had kind of the same reaction as you. They're OK for a little while, but I couldn't imagine spending more than a day at either one. Atlantic City is a little more interesting, although I find it kind of depressing. It's like a thin veneer of glitz on what is otherwise a rather grim place.

Vegas, on the other hand, is a completely different story. I think some of it is just the scale of the place. Imagine the casino you went to, but with two dozen more within a one mile radius. It's just so nuts and over-the-top, you can't help but be entertained by it. I think they put something in the water, too. Like I said, I'm not a big gambler. $50 on slots and I'm pretty much done. Spend a few days in Vegas, though, and you find yourself walking past banks of slot machines going, "Well, I'll just stop and play for a few minutes." You definitely need some willpower to keep from losing your shirt. It doesn't help that my first time out I hit for $600 while we were basically hanging out waiting to go to the airport. I was hooked for sure after that.